In whom can we find the truth? (1King 18:16-39)

Topic: In whom can we find the truth?
Text: 1King 18:16-39

In this world everyone believes in something or someone. For many people belief is the result of what they have heard from others. Others also what they have seen from a person doing or done. However, many times those who spoke to them were deceived themselves and did not know the truth. It is important to believe the truth; but what is the truth?.

1.where can we find the truth

In African society the idea of truth is related to the stories and myths about life and human experiences which are passed down from one generation to another by elders or grandparents of the clan. In some years back when the moon was on in the night, the elders of the town will call the children and tell myths and stories about life and related it facts or truth.

The passage we just read was a story about the truth of powers. There are many different kinds of powers in the world. Political power, Religious power, the evil power and ultimate power is the one that belongs to God.
When the Prophet met people with different kind of power, he proved to them that there was and is only one power that comes with glory -God's power.

In John 18 Jesus was arrested and sent blasphemy that he claimed to call himself God. But in the midst of going through the punishment of death , Jesus claimed that “For this reason I came into the world, to testify to the Truth” (John 18:37) then the Roman governor Pontius Pilate asked him, “what is the Truth:
In John 14:6, Jesus said I am the way, the truth, and the life and no one comes to the father expect through me. Can Jesus prove such a claim? And if Jesus is right, then other religious teachers and even many elders must be wrong.
In Japan as you are aware, there are many gods around us. The difference between Japan and Africa is that Africans believed that there is only one God called (Onyankopon) mean the most high one above all. So they believed that they cannot reach Him personally so they worship him through mediums like river, stones and forest ect.

So if someone claimed that truth of God, then we should find out that he used his power of truth for the good of others and not for his own benefit. Has there ever been such a person? To discover who has the truth let us briefly compare Christ Jesus with others who claimed to teach the truth. Let see who used his power only for the good of others.

2. Jesus Christ compared to other religious Teachers

What other man in history was born of a virgin woman? What other man ever lived a sinless and perfect life, for the good of others, as Jesus Christ did? When did Krishna of Hinduism ever calm the storm and waves for his followers? When did Guatemala of Buddhism ever clean the leper or give sight to those who born blind? When did the teacher of Confucius feed more than 5000 people men, women and children who listened his teaching? When did Mao Tse Tung of China ever heal an epileptic child? When did Marx of Lenin ever raise a widow’s only son form the dead?

What other man in history besides Jesus has ever answered the desperate prayer of hurting people who cried out to him for help? Which teacher or religious leader ever made 180 gallons of water into wine for the joy of newly married couples at their wedding feast? When did Mohammed die for the sins of mankind? When did Mohammed rise from the dead to give hope and eternal life?

The answers to these questions tell us that Jesus Christ was different and still different from every other man who ever lived. Although many religious leaders, teachers and prophets in history have claimed to teach the truth, only Jesus Christ has demonstrated by his life of perfect love, perfect holiness and perfect power that he is the way, the truth and the life as he claimed to be (John 14:6) When we compare Jesus to other persons in history, we find that there has never been a person like him. If we believe in Jesus Christ, we will find the truth, God’s forgiveness of our sins and eternal life with God forever.
Therefore the Bible tells us that we need to believe in the only one who came and die for all mankind and the whole authority has been given to him. “All the Authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me, Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always to the very end of the age”.